Sectional table-pad.



0. WINTER.

SEGTIONAL TABLE PD.A

A PPLIGATIION FILED sEPT.2e, 1907.

Patented 0015.27, 1908.

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Inventor OQScarM/Lfer y nivrrnn sTATEsV PATENT OFFICE.

SECTIONAL TALETPAD.

No. soa-,osa

l Specification of Letters Patent.

` Patented 0640.27, 190s. l

Application i'iled September 2G, 1907. Serial No. 394,621.

To all-whom it mary concern:

Be it known that 1, Osons VTNTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the couigity of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sectional Table- Pads, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention is for the protection of pol ished dining table tops, to prevent their disigurement from hot dishes. When the tables lare covered with a blanket under the table cloth, as generally heretofore in use, they are not sufficiently protected to prevent the blistering of the polished surface, or the adl'iering of the blanket thereto, which causes white blemishes'.4 To overcome the objcctions enumerated segregate il pads of nontheir l any table with flexible and non-hoat conducting material, are removably secured within an outer cov ering of soft material, subdivided into suitable pockets by removable tapes or cords, which permit the folding together of a series of pads, within the several. pockets of the cover, into a small space for use, and especially a covering which permits the removal of the several pad sections and the tapes or cords from the cover when it needs to be laundered.

The .invention is illustrated in the accom-v panying drawing wherein like parts are ini dicatedby like reference characters, in which Figure 1 represents the covering of a round table with an interposed extension leaf.

Fig. 2 is a section, on an enlarged scale, on line'rwlfig. 1. Eig. 3 is also a section, pn an enlarged scale, on line y fy Fig. 1.

The illustration, Fig. 1, is of a circular table with one extension, but it will be obvious a different top may equally well be covered, by shaping and arranging the parts to suit its contour. the tabla-top shown, each end section 1, 2l of the covering will consist of two pieces of material 3,V 4 cut to shape, laid together with their wrong sides outward and their outer circular edges 5 will then be permanently stitched together, they will then be turned right sideout to form a rece tacle wherein to insert the pad sections wit out any attachment to the covering. The pad sections areV preferably composed of compressed wood when not required For v I pulp 6, coated with a silicate-,soda solution 7, which permanently unites alcov'ering S of lI asbestospaper to the wood pulp :6, andthese t, component parts form an inflexiblejbody iml pervlous to moisture, and a non-conductor l of heat to theextent desired for the purpose l employed. For the purpose of 'folding and l storing in a small space thecover sections 1, i 7 are subdivided into convenient compartments 8', 9, 10 by interlacing the cover partsA l 3, Ll,fpr,eferably with chalk line or tapes 11 lwhich can be withdrawn when the cover needs to be cleansed. The inner edges 12 of the covers 3, 4 are folded in as seen at .13 in Fig. 3 for strength Y ciently to secure the pad sections in place by sewing 121 of a temporary character, easily removable when the pad'scetions are to be removed from the cover. rl`he intermediate section covers 15 are permanently sewed together on edges 16, 17 1S and ieft open on edge19 for the insertion of their pad sections 20, 21, the edge 19 is then closed by temporaryvsewing, and tapes 22 are interlaced through coversl to segregate sections 20, 21 and permit folding.

1 claim. I ,i 1. In a ,table top protection, a lcovering formed of an upper and lower-partwperrnanently secured together for a portion of their edges to therebyform a `receptacle which "is open at the free portionfof the edges foristhe vvinsertion of sectional pads; removable means rial interlaced throng the outer coverings, between the pad sections, and removable when the outer eovering needs to be cleansed.

ln testimony whereof l afhx ,my signature in presence of two Witnesses..

osoAR WINTER.

Witnesses i y EltANsoM C. WRIGHT, l WILLIAM C. S'ronv'nn.

and drawn together suflito subdivide the' c'over and segregate the ad sections, and means at the covers free e ges "the` Pad sections, com rising f1 Strip of mme 

